Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accomplice becomes an enemy , and in due course a victim , at which point he can only salute the irony of his being executed on All Souls , Day : ‘ This is the day wherein I wished to fall/By the false faith of him whom most I trusted ’ ( V.i . |
| 2 | That track might have been the boundary of the world for some villagers , most of whom rarely ventured beyond their nearest market town . |
| 3 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 4 | Precisely four-fifths of the yeomen owned land , but even though this was far more widely diffused than in Rutland there remained a marked contrast between them and the husbandmen , of whom rather less than half were freeholders . |
| 5 | The petrochemicals business employs some 3500 people on Teesside , of whom rather less than 100 are in the headquarters group . |
| 6 | To whom incidently , the Society is most grateful . |
| 7 | He was Arthur Wharton , a Jamaican about whom little recorded evidence exists apart from his sprinting achievements . |
| 8 | Chorleton 's replacement , about whom little , not even his name , is known , suffered as the first Master to be subjected to the complaints of the local community , expressed formally to the Goldsmiths by William Davenport of Bramhall in April 1545 . |
| 9 | We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work . |
| 10 | I did so erm partly because this seems the most useful approach for an audience , not all of whom perhaps have read in detail the fifteen volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu , erm and partly because he in fact offers a very interesting challenge , I think , at this precise level . |
| 11 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 12 | ‘ Bifurcation ’ refers to a dual-edged approach to the problem of offending : differentiating between ‘ ordinary ’ or ‘ run of the mill ’ offenders with whom less severe measures can be taken on the one hand , and on the other hand ‘ exceptional ’ , ‘ very serious ’ or ‘ dangerous ’ offenders who can be made subject to much tougher measures . |
| 13 | It had about 164,000 regulars , of whom only some 80,000 were on more than a three-year engagement . |
| 14 | Better to have only 1,000 farmers at an event , but almost all of them intimately involved with growing a particular crop , the logic runs , than 10,000 farmers of whom only a small proportion will be interested in particular machines . |
| 15 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 16 | The Men 's membership was now 180 and the Ladies a mere 33 ( of whom only 16 played ) , and a Joint Membership of another 40 couples . |
| 17 | The fist reason is that our society is composed of a variety of religious groups , of whom only 20 per cent are practising Christians . |
| 18 | Of course , there are those young people whom only a parent could love . |
| 19 | All the major Test playing nations are represented ( save Pakistan of course ) , the West Indies dominating with nine overseas professionals , of whom only three were actually playing against South Africa . |
| 20 | Dinah Arkwright had laid her elegant black-gloved hand on the sleeve of a stocky young man with a short beard , whom only a few could name . |
| 21 | Aung San 's demand for eleven seats out of fifteen was not conceded and at the end of the month the Governor appointed a Council of ten members , of whom only two were British . |
| 22 | One of the reasons why Constanze did not really come into her own until after Mozart 's death may well have been that she spent much of her married life in various debilitating stages of pregnancy , bearing six children ( of whom only two survived ) . |
| 23 | By this time he had published a major treatise on violin technique , and had fathered seven children , of whom only two , a daughter and a son , survived . |
| 24 | And for people for whom only the best will do , the magnificent Eclipse has everything … from hob light to an automatic oven timer . |
| 25 | For those for whom only a pure object-oriented language will do , Micro Focus is also offering a Smalltalk/V-Cobol environment so that Smalltalk can be used as a front end to Cobol programs , offering quick prototyping capabilities . |
| 26 | At Steeple Claydon , on the other hand , where nine land assessments compare with only three actual freeholders , there were some fifty inhabitants all told , of whom only four drew income from land.l Either custom or convention hereabouts militated against subletting , or officials in the Buckingham hundreds ignored land that was not freehold , for far fewer owners were recorded there than in the remainder of the county . |
| 27 | In addition , five patients with motor neurone disease suffered from swallowing disorders , of whom only two had been assessed . |
| 28 | The use of guardianship was never widely taken up , however , and in 1978 a total of 138 people were subject to it , of whom only 37 were mentally ill . |
| 29 | After the meal is concluded there is the auction , conducted by a , by then , very inebriated MC whom only Stanley Unwin would understand . |
| 30 | Which took me straight back to my young friend on the terrace , for whom only the numbers count . |